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title: Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain, who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him. Who acts: queen, bear, robber captain. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 29

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Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain, who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him.

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**Who acts:** queen, bear, robber captain · **What happens:** lead, amuse, pay, flatter, agree, marry · **To what, where:** dull life, castle, bear, visits, peace

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, bear, robber captain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:15:29
# text = Now the queen led a dull life all alone in the castle, and to amuse herself she paid visits to the robber captain, who flattered her till at last she agreed to marry him.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the queen | a dull life |  | the castle | now | alone *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in castle=Destination |
| 2 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | the queen *not said here* | bear |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pay** | past | bear | visits |  |  |  | to the robber captain | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 4 | **flatter** | past | the robber captain | bear |  |  | till last |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* | peace |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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